Reflect on how you actually work.
FocusMirror is an AI work journal for your Mac. It watches where your day goes so you don't have to — and hands back honest time blocks, plain-language summaries, and one concrete recommendation for tomorrow.
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Passive by design
No timers to start, no categories to tag, nothing to remember. FocusMirror runs in your menu bar and quietly notes which apps, windows, and sites you're in.
Honest by default
Descriptive, never judgmental. It says "you spent" — never "you wasted." The point is an accurate reflection, not a guilt trip or a productivity score.
Private by architecture
Excluded apps are filtered on your Mac before anything uploads. Our servers can't leak what they never receive — and there is no boss dashboard.
Start a session. Then forget it's there.
One click in the menu bar, an optional goal, and a check-in cadence from 5 to 60 minutes. While you work, FocusMirror samples the active app, window title, and site domain — metadata, never content. Pause or stop anytime; the icon always shows when tracking is on.
Offline? Everything queues locally and syncs when you're back. A dropped connection never loses a session.
Raw activity in. Honest time blocks out.
AI classifies every stretch of your day into nine categories — deep work, communication, meetings, research, and the rest — then groups them into blocks you can actually reason about. Context switches are counted, because the forty alt-tabs are the story.
No "productivity score." A single number can't be honest about a day. Blocks can.
A quiet nudge, on your schedule.
At each interval you chose, a native notification reflects the last stretch back to you — what you worked on, whether it matched your goal, and nothing more. It reads like a colleague's observation, not a verdict.
On goal · 10:00–10:30
You spent the full half hour in the schemas file — one unbroken block, no app switches.
Daily report
Thursday, Jun 11One recommendation. Not twelve.
The daily report totals your categories, finds your longest focus block and most fragmented hour, lists what you actually shipped — and ends with exactly one concrete suggestion for tomorrow.
The discipline of one is the feature. Advice you might follow beats a dashboard you'll ignore.
Built for you. Only you.
Every commitment below maps to a code-level enforcement — not a policy promise. This is the architecture, not the marketing.
Free proves the tracking. Pro is the intelligence.
Free
3 sessions a day, 7-day history, and the full daily report.
ProFounding $79/yr
Unlimited sessions and history, AI summaries at every interval, trends, coaching, and export.
Watch it get built.
FocusMirror is being built in public — tracked, naturally, with FocusMirror.
Week 3 — The menu-bar app exists
Tray with live tracking states, session start/pause/stop with crash recovery, four-screen onboarding with macOS permission flows.
Week 2 — Accounts & live dashboard
Sign-in, sessions and daily-report pages, and an 18-check row-level-security test proving your data is yours alone.
Week 1 — Foundations
Monorepo, database schema with privacy-first hard rules, this site, and the waitlist you're looking at.
Fair questions.
Your day, reflected back honestly.
macOS (Apple Silicon) · free tier at launch · 14-day Pro trial, no card required.